William Shakespeare quote about evil from Romeo and Juliet - O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st - A damned saint, an honourable villain!
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“ O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st - A damned saint, an honourable villain! ”
 William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597). copy citation

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Author William Shakespeare
Source Romeo and Juliet
Topic evil hate snake
Date 1597
Language English
Reference Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene 2
Note Written between 1591 and 1595 Juliet line
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1112/pg1112.html

Context

“Romeo that kill'd him, he is banished. Jul. O God! Did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?
NURSE. It did, it did! alas the day, it did!
Jul. O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face!
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical!
Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb!
Despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st- A damned saint, an honourable villain! O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend” source

Meaning and analysis

Kwize Master Juliet has just learned from her nurse that Romeo killed her cousin Tybalt and was banished to punish him for his crime. Juliet then complains by using oxymorons to show how ambiguous Romeo is, between his soft appearance and his violent behavior. On the one hand she is in love with Romeo whom she finds wonderful, and on the other hand Romeo's actions are terrible and put Juliet in a very difficult situation.
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William Shakespeare quote about evil from Romeo and Juliet - O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st - A damned saint, an honourable villain!
William Shakespeare quote about evil from Romeo and Juliet - O serpent heart, hid with a flow'ring face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st - A damned saint, an honourable villain!